Birmingham Anglers Association

Agreed. My record is 2x in 21 years. The simple truth is that EA bailiffs are an endangered species and those which do exist concentrate on the low hanging fruit of token visits to commercials (where they can add 15-20 to the stats in an hour) rather than walking miles and spending hours along a canal towpath or river bank and add nothing to the stats. It's a number crunching cost/benefit exercise necessitated by the meagre staffing levels.